Darn.

I'm not sure if I have already stated this, but I have indeed decided to stop getting new BJDs, Fish was supposed to be my last one. On the other hand I'm not yet sure I really want to keep him...

And the more I stick to  spending less time on BJDs the more I realize how much I want another white-skinned 50cm doll >__<
Sharing my pain :D

Demon face

I just wanted to change his face-up, but I ended up modding the whole face...not sure about how it came up but it did. Now I have the rest of his little chubby body to paint.

Faceup tutorial

I happened to put together something that looks like a face-blushing tutorial.

Kinda made me realize what I really need to improve myself^^

Little Fish

I'm done with the body carvings, woot.

Still need to paint those and re-paint the face too.

I  don't know if I should carve the face as well though...

Let darkness reign

BJD 2013

That is what my BJD colleaction looks like this year :) I feel like it goes in the right direction. 

I still have more work to do on it though, especially on the two in the middle.

Unclassified species

Sorry for all that Vice spam.

But - it has been such a long time sine I enjoyed taking pictures of him, that I had to get tones of them!

Some work is in progress.

Still not done yet. But most of the carving is over!

 

All of a sudden

I have been thinking about opening a Zaoll mouth but never dared to do it. And suddenly...

I can't say if it really works well, but I now am fond of his cheekbones and teeth :D

At least, Vice is back, and I don't totally dislike how he turns out on pictures!

Petit Prince

Je n'ai toujours pas avancé la custo de cette doll. 

Pourtant je l'aime bien, j'en ai donc fait quelques photos d'une grande banalité:

Good robot

Rei is a good robot. He is obedient and calm, thoughtful, polite. He wants to fulfill his purpose.

Yet he is curious about all sort of things and underneath it all he has courage and determination of his own. And he may yet find a different purpose for himself than the one he knows of.

I changed Rei's face-up for the sake of giving him a slightly different expression, it's a lso a tiny bit less girlish, I think.

Face-up Tutorial

Well, not a real tutorial, just a walkthrough, actually.

Narsha and Zaoll face-up:

Unless I've skipped some I did these ones in three steps:
- First step defines the color  areas of the face, where which color goes, using the lighter shades of each tint. I also usually define the mouth line at that stage unless I forget it^^"
- Second step is for accentuating colors, use darker and more saturated variations, start working on the skin texture and define the eye-brow shapes. I usually try the eyes on at that point in order to make sure the facial expression is coming out fine.
- Third step comes with details: more skin texture, lashes, mouth details, eye-brow details, while the darker parts of the face-up get more dense color with extra layers of pastel.

And then a layer of gloss or two, and here we are :)

Petite nouvelle

C'est sans trop y réfléchir que j'ai enfin cédé à l'envie d'avoir une Narsha chez moi, et là voilà, c'est une petite chose merveilleuse et fort bien faite (sauf au niveau des genoux qui me posent quelques souci). 

Donc pas de regrets donc, mais beaucoup de questions que je me pose sur sa custo... qui n'est toujours absolument pas décidée. Mais peu importe, j'avais envie de lui faire quelques petites modifications sur le visage et un face-up, juste pour m'en faire une meilleure idée. 

Holyday Spirit!

I got myself a tiny Xmas tree this year, and of course I had to get some pictures of Rei with it.
Hope you all have a great holyday!

Doesn't it make you feel bad?

I just wrote a bunch of lines about recasts, a lot of arguments and feels. But I'm not positing those after all, what's the point?
All I really want to say is: I've been seeing a lot of recast BJD pictures on tumblr and various blogs recently, and it just really makes me sad.